"Quality Questions"

2. If prohibition is to protect us from the harms of illicit drugs, how is prison a safer alternative?

3. How can someone, under American law, be tried for drugs in state court, and then retried in federal court on the same charges?

4. If mandatory minimums work, why are they only applied to drug offenses?

5. If buying or selling drugs is a felonious activity, why is it acceptable for governmental agencies such as the CIA, DEA, FBI, and ATF?

6. Why are “look-alike” drugs (including parsley, oregano, soap, and wax), which aren’t drugs and do not possess the psychoactive, addictive or harmful qualities of drugs, punishable by the same harsh consequences?

7. Marijuana has never caused one single death! Why is it called a deadly drug?

8. Marijuana is a proven treatment for glaucoma and nausea. Heroin was created by the Bayer company as a more pleasing form of morphine. Why are these two drugs classified non-medicinal? And why do the police (the DEA) -- and not the physicians -- decide?

9. The DEA’s #1 choice anti-nauseant for AIDS and cancer patients is Marinol. If real marijuana doesn’t work, how does fake marijuana work? Also, if marijuana hadn’t proved itself effective, why would it have been synthesized to begin with?

10. The U.K. produces a four-day supply of heroin for $1. The U.S. buys pure pharmaceutical cocaine for $35 an ounce. Where would crime exist at these prices?

11. Does the War on Drugs:

a. Prevent drugs from entering our country?
b. Prevent the selling of drugs?
c. Prevent the consumption of drugs?
d. Stop the rising crime rate associated with drugs?

12. What has 87 years of prohibition accomplished in America?

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